App Review – Personal Finance

With just some groceries, a few text books, and other personal needs it is easy to lose track of how much you’ve spent in a few weeks. This just becomes worse as the semester progresses. If you need help with staying organized financially, then download Mint, create an account, and start budgeting! With graphs and lists, Mint allows you to view all your bank account’s activity, helps you set limits, and makes it easier to understand how much you’ve spent (and where you’ve spent this) at any given time.

Pros:

Beautiful user interface

You may track several accounts at the same time

The app automatically creates custom budgets for food, entertainment and other items based on your transactions (you may edit these as well)

Set custom push-notifications and alerts for transactions and balance levels

The app provides you with personalized advices, depending on your accounts and activities

It uses your bank account in a “read-only” mode — no money can be moved using Mint

No ads

Mint accounts are also available from the web

Cons:

You must create an account to use it

You must add your online banking information (username and password), or else the app is just empty and useless

It is difficult to understand which features are automatic, which are manual, and how to customize these

You may download this app for free from the App Store, Google Play, and the Windows Phone Store.